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Funny Girl (film) https://youtu.be/TP4Th50cfEA  U tube Funny Girl is a 1968 American biographical musical film directed by William Wyler . The screenplay by Isobel Lennart was adapted from her book for the eponymous stage musical . It is loosely based on the life and career of Broadway and film star and comedian Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein . Produced by Brice's son-in-law, Ray Stark , with music and lyrics by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill , the film stars Barbra Streisand (in her film debut reprising her Broadway role) as Brice and Omar Sharif as Arnstein, with a supporting cast featuring Kay Medford , Anne Francis , Walter Pidgeon , Lee Allen, and Mae Questel . It was the first film by Stark's company Rastar. Streisand won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, tying with Katharine Hepburn ( The Lion in Winter ). In 2006, the American Film Institute ranked the film...

‘So alien! So other!’: how western TV gets Japanese culture wrong From travelogues to Banzai, there’s a history of portraying the country as kooky and odd – saying more about its makers than its subject Ellen E Jones Orientalist mis-step... Joanna Lumley’s Japan; Banzai; Sue Perkins in Japan. Composite: ITV; Alamy Stock Photo; BBC I t just feels so alien! So other! So extraordinarily strange!” So said Sue Perkins as she walked across Tokyo’s most crowded zebra crossing in the opening sequence of her travelogue. But shouldn’t this all be more familiar by now? The 40 best TV shows coming this autumn Rea...

Being John Malkovich at 20: why the surrealist comedy demands a rewatch Being John Malkovich, 1999 Photograph: Allstar/Propaganda Films/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar W hen Being John Malkovich opened in 1999, nobody knew the name of its screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, who’d spent the previous 15 years laboring in the comedy salt mines, submitting articles on spec to National Lampoon, writing a number of unproduced pilots, and landing gigs on short-lived (if beloved) sketch shows like Get a Life and The Dana Carvey Show. Yet as soon as it premiered – and for every project he did afterwards – it was talked about as a Charlie Kaufman film, even though it was directed by Spike Jonze, whose work on innovative commercials and videos for Weezer (Buddy Holly), Beastie Boys (Sabotage), and others had earned him a reputation as one of the most sought-after talents in the business. This was virtually unprecedented; even Robert Towne, whose script for Chinatow...

How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness By  Richard Brody October 14, 2019 A poor family of four lives at the end of a dead end in the film “Parasite,” by the Korean director Bong Joon-ho, which wreaks a devastating twist on a dark truth of capitalism. Photograph Courtesy NEON Of  the two current movies in which a young man who has been severely harmed by the inequalities of money and power preys upon the wealthy, looks nihilistically at the social order, turns to violence, and is given to fits of compulsive laughter, the Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s “ Parasite ” is by far the better one, but the contrast between that film and “ Joker ” is nonetheless revealing. “Joker” takes off from a facile premise and descends into incoherent political trolling as a result of scattershot plotting and antics—its director, Todd Phillips, appears not to see what he’s doing. Bong, by contrast, is a far more skillful and thoughtful filmmaker...

Boccaccio '70 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Boccaccio '70 Original Poster Directed by Vittorio De Sica Luchino Visconti Federico Fellini Mario Monicelli Produced by Carlo Ponti Tonino Cervi Written by Suso Cecchi D'Amico Mario Monicelli Italo Calvino ,  Giovanni Arpino ,  Tullio Pinelli Federico Fellini Ennio Flaiano Luchino Visconti Cesare Zavattini Starring Anita Ekberg Romy Schneider Sophia Loren Marisa Solinas Music by Nino Rota Armando Trovajoli Piero Umiliani Release date February 22, 1962 Running time 150 minutes (release with 3 segments) 208 min (Italian version with all four segments) Country Italy Language German/Italian Boccaccio '70  is a  1962   Italian   anthology film  produced by  Carlo Ponti  and directed by  Mario Monicelli ,  Federico Fellini ,  Luchino Visconti  and  Vittorio De Sica , from an idea by  Cesare Zavattini . ...